Megan K. Stack
Megan Stack has covered the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon, as well as the Palestinian intifada. She joined the Times’ national desk in 2001 as Houston bureau chief. She was posted to Jerusalem in 2003 and, later that year, was named Cairo bureau chief. In 2007, with her colleagues in the Baghdad bureau, she was named a Pulitzer finalist for Iraq coverage and won an Overseas Press Club award. A native of Glastonbury, CT, Stack studied Spanish literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and graduated from George Washington University in 1998. She worked as a reporter for the El Paso Times and covered Texas and the Mexican border for the Associated Press. EMAIL
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The native of Torrance has used a telegenic face and deft Mandarin skills to carve out his niche: playing the foreigner.
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During his 18 years as patriarch, Alexei had restored the church to an institution of privilege and power and healed a rift with a splinter group.
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In a bid to defuse escalating tensions, Japanese officials free the fisherman who strayed into disputed waters and whose boat rammed into Japanese patrol boats. China is barely mollified.
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Ecologist Marina Rikhvanova is trying to protect Siberia’s Lake Baikal. She is up against a Kremlin and business elite intent on exploiting natural resources.
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Aleksander Dugin, a popular theorist in hard-line circles, advocates an alliance between the former Soviet Union and the Middle East. He says Georgia crisis could be start of a real conflict with U.S.
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Friends remember a volatile youth whose militant turn began with a stint in Afghanistan.
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Life is hard these days in Moscow. And a 12-story-high pyramid outside the capital is reputed to have mysterious powers: Russians flock to it looking for peace of mind, strength, health, insight.
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A decrepit lab in Abkhazia reassures a would-be nation of its place in the world. It’s harder to console the forlorn primates held there.
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A jet carrying the coffin of Yasser Arafat arrived in Cairo today, hours after the Palestinian leader died at a French hospital from an undisclosed ailment.
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U.S. officials say the move shows that Tehran does not need to pursue its own atomic program. Analysts say the administration appears to be putting the best spin on a decision it had opposed.
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As a woman in the male-dominated kingdom, Times reporter Megan Stack quietly fumed beneath her abaya. Even beyond its borders, her experience taints her perception of the sexes.
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Russia and China, which stand to benefit from the U.S. intelligence shift on the nuclear weapons issue, remain wary.
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Muslims outraged over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad target a Christian community and Danish Consulate. Some see Syria’s hand.
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A commuter new to the city is haunted by the images of the poor and desperate and buoyed by glimpses of kindness she sees on the subway.
